From Social Justice to Metaphor: The Whitening of Othello in the Russian Imagination
Othello was the most often-staged Shakespeare play on early Soviet stages, to a large extent because of its ideological utility. Interpreted with close attention to racial conflict, this play came to symbolize, for Soviet theatres and audiences, the destructive racism of the West in contrast with So...
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Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2021-06-01
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Series: | Multicultural Shakespeare |
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Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/10721 |